Does science make the truth fit the answer s or the answer fit the truth? Or neither?

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Best Answer: Science is a method for seeking the truth. It may not be the best method but humans have not developed a better one. Until a better is discovered, if it ever is, then the scientific method is the gold standard for seeking out the truth.

It can only define truth by the current technologies we have and our current understanding. Things can and do change because we invent technologies that were better than previous ones and our understanding grows. This is where I think most people have problems with science. They expect it to find absolute and unchallengeable truths and cannot understand why our knowledge alters.

Scientists new about the nuclear bomb before it was built. From science they knew it was theoretically possible. They followed the math and physics of it. Then boom it went.
Same thing goes for all of the other tech you take for granted...

“What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?” Steven Novella